So neither of my teams made it close to the finals and while I am very much sure that I will not help my Barracuda – or maybe I actually will by not playing in my current state, so in the end I may be helpful by not being there – I may actually be able to help Carolina a bit more than I did last season by adding a whopping 75 TPE to my player so he can be actually a little bit less useless on the ice. While most of what I did is more focussed on the offensive side of my defender I surely hope I am able to score a lot more by using my better skating stats to drive the puck forward on the ice and fulfill my duty as a rushing defenceman by actually rushing and not only failing at pushing and getting the puck stolen from me half the time. (155 words)


This season's IIHF tournament will be interesting as we can again see if the domination of Team British Isles will continue to dominate the tournament or if we can see a season with a surprise winner. As per usual I can see Team Canada, Team United States and the British Isles go well, but I would not sleep on Austria. Having built up their player in the last few seasons I can see them slowly rising up as these players will earn and continue to get better and better and soon will probably be uncapped enough to actually make it worth at least a dark horse role in the tournament. While I do not see this happening this season already I think starting S59 IIHF Austria could be up and coming. But since the question is more about this season I think the usual suspects will be very good as well with especially Canada still having a great roster and a chance to take home this tournament again. They have to get by the United States and the British Isles though to see if they can really shine this season. (189 words)





Answer to c. – 1 TPE
If it would be a battle of the jerseys of those teams only I would actually prefer the Buffalo Stampede logo since I like the classic lines, colors and the look of it, especially of the primary jersey, but since we are talking about the whole branding here I have to say I am going with Hamilton. Not only because I want to rep Canada being a canadian by choice (not birth) it is always nice to see playing good, and the whole package of branding is simply better for Hamilton together as a set and judging it as exactly this. A special shoutout to Buffalos secondary logo though since I am a sucker for maps and I love the outline incorporated into it! (124 words)


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There is no way I am not going to say something nice about the most favourite people on the internet I know: and these are my Birddogs. Especially @Kyamprac, @Amidships and @inverted. I have grown to love them over the last half year and more, and these are people that I regard my friends by now. But it does not stop there because I can not talk about the people that are close to me without mentioning the rest of the bunch that I got to know over in the ISFL @enigmatic, @Asked Madden (even though he always gets drafted ahead of me), @Rev (even though he is a boat), @OrbitingDeath, @zaynzk, my fellow Co-GM of the Dallas Birddogs: the marvelous @ZootTX who joined a season after me together with @yonggarius and @gucci.

Also the friendly Hahaluas who are playing with me in the ISFL including @Raven, @siddhus and hopefully soon Attopax who is our GM and still needs some convincing as well the super fresh joined @Faded.

Also can not forget the new people I met over in this league, especially the Carolina gang with @Gumbaman, @sve7en, @overdoo and all the other great people over there that I am not going to name for this will be just a list of people by then that made me enjoy this league a lot and stick around and invest more time into it than I originally planned. (You know who you are) and finally because they are the newest ones in my circle here the friendly Barracudas who believed in me enough to grab me in the first round with especially @hockeyiscool, @trella, my friendly commissioner over from the DSFL @TomHanks and the lovely @Muford who I will always have fun with no matter where we are.

Also can not forget @JKortesi81 who said he would draft me but then did not. Shaking my head (in real life).

Total: 16/16